# AI/ML Engineering Lead

Hiring organization: [Protective Life](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/protective-life)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/83f8e325-b26c-4fa4-a82b-276e8534d9db

Listed on Protective Life's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Lead / Staff / Principal
- Location: Birmingham, AL
- Salary: 124500 – 180000 USD per year

## Summary

A hands-on technical leadership role overseeing the full machine learning lifecycle—from experimentation through production deployment—on Databricks and Azure for a major life insurance company. This suits experienced engineers who want to mentor teams, set technical standards, and own both strategic direction and day-to-day implementation of ML and generative AI systems in a regulated environment.

_Our summary, not Protective Life's wording._

## Skills named

Databricks, Generative AI, Machine Learning, Microsoft Azure, Python

## Required

- Hands-on technical leadership of ML and GenAI projects
- Ownership of ML lifecycle from experiment to production
- Setting and enforcing engineering standards for ML
- Mentoring ML and data engineers
- Ensuring model reliability, monitoring, documentation, fairness, and explainability
- Working within regulated industry constraints (life insurance)
- Collaboration with product managers, data engineers, and Model Risk teams

Apply on Protective Life's site: https://jobs.lever.co/protective/c7aa36fd-3d99-4e94-8031-0bdb52aeaf61/apply